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"James Thomson, (born Sept. 11, 1700, Ednam, Roxburgh, Scot.—died Aug. 27, 1748, Richmond, Eng.), Scottish poet whose best verse foreshadowed some of the attitudes of the Romantic movement. His poetry also gave expression to the achievements of Newtonian science and to an England reaching toward great political power based on commercial and maritime expansion."

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